So far I’ve been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
JIMMY PAGELive Aid did feel like one hour’s rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
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Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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I deal in emotions. It’s the harmonic side that’s important. That’s the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I’ve got to keep at it.
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I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
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I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
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There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.
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The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.
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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”
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You can’t overthink the music. Mood and intensity can’t be manufactured. The blues isn’t about structure; it’s what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.
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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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I don’t know whether I’ll reach 40. I don’t know whether I’ll reach 35. I can’t be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn’t think I’d make 30.
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Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I’m fine. I’m in another world – in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.
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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
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